Undergraduate Course: The Revolutionary Decade? Europe in the 1960s (HIST10165)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | History |
Other subject area | None |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The course will analyse key political, social, and cultural developments in Europe during the 1960s. Although its primary focus will lie on western Europe, the eastern half of the continent will also receive extensive attention. The course will be organised in a thematic, trans-national fashion, and students will be encouraged to draw links and comparisons across national boundaries, including across the East-West divide in the Cold War. The main themes to be covered will include: breaks and continuities between the 1950s and the 1960s, generational tensions, changing attitudes towards the recent past, particularly the Second World War and its legacies, changing social mores, developments in gender roles, cultural innovations, new political movements and their implications, and the legacies of the 1960s. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | A pass in 40 credits of third level historical courses or equivalent.
Before enrolling students on this course, Directors are asked to contact the History Honours Admission Secretary to ensure that a place is available (Tel: 503783). |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students who take this course will develop an advanced understanding of key political, social, and cultural developments in Europe between the late 1950s and early 1970s. They will engage critically with the relevant historiography and with a range of textual and non-textual primary sources, including photographs, film, and music. They will also develop further a range of transferable skills that they have begun to acquire during their first three years of university study, including the ability to argue effectively about intellectual issues, both orally and in writing; to write informed and cogent essays; to take responsibility for seminar presentations in which they elaborate and defend intellectual positions before other members of the group; and to work effectively with others in small group settings. |
Assessment Information
| The two examination papers will account for 50% (i.e. 25% each), the essays for 35% (17.5% each), and the non-written skills for 15% (5% general participation, 10% oral presentation) of the overall grade. |
Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Pertti Ahonen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3775
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Course secretary | Ms Rozanne Luty
Tel: (0131 6)50 3783
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